FRI 8 MAY – FRI 12 JUNE 2015 To commemorate 70 years since the end of the Second World War, the Goethe-Institut London is showing a series of films documenting the liberation of the Nazi camps. Straight after the war, the Allied programme of ‘re-education’ aimed to confront the German populati
Picture the scene: your job is in an area that will have experienced growth – and more, and more growth – for almost twenty years. Yet, by now your biggest worry is nothing more than this boom. This superficially paradoxical case describes the current state of the French comics market that is st
In 2008, I came to Paris from Lebanon to attend the annual Salon du livre, for a book launch and signing of my second novel, Wild Mulberries, which had at that time just been translated into French (published by Verticales). The day of my book signing, I read in the media about Arab calls to [&helli
Not long ago, it would have been unimaginable that one of the fastest selling out “performances” in a national theatre would be a lecture by an economist; that around a thousand people would buy tickets in a single day and then eagerly await a man who, in an English softened by a French accent,
‘Homunculus’ is a collection of sixteen adult fairy tales in which Prokopiev combines the erotic, tragic, absurd, and humorous. The tales in Homunculus challenge our perceptions of reality. They transcend the sugar-sweet endings we normally associate with fairy tales while retaining elem
“‘The King in Yellow’, a series of vaguely connected short stories having as a background a monstrous and suppressed book whose perusal brings fright, madness, and spectral tragedy, really achieves notable heights of cosmic fear.” – HP Lovecraft Adapted from the disturb
